A former Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, in Rivers State, Professor Lawanson Agbani Briggs, is dead. Africa Update gathered from sources that Prof. Briggs, who was a lecturer in the Department of Human Kinetics, Health and Safety Education, Faculty of Natural and Applied Sciences, at the same University, died aged 62.
A statement signed by the public relations officer of the University, Ngozi Okiridu, on Wednesday,reads in part, “A former Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Ignatius Ajuru University of Education (2010- July 2014) and immediate past Dean of Postgraduate School (the second Dean since the inception of the school) Professor Lawanson Agbani Briggs has passed on. “According to the letter of death notification to the university signed by the son of the deceased Mr Oyibo Briggs, Professor L.A. Briggs passed on on Saturday, January 2, 2021.
“The Professor of Public Health Education gave the fifth inaugural lecture of the university on the topic “Pregnancy in Adolescence: Intergenerational Cycle of Growth Failure and Stunting” on Thursday, April 27, 2017. “Until his death, he was a Professor in the Department of Human Kinetics, Health and Safety Education, Faculty of Natural and Applied Sciences. “
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